RAW hired hit team to kill Sikh leader in US: Washington Post
New Delhi: Infamous Indian secret agency, Research and Analysis Wing, (RAW), had hired a hit team and plotted an attack on Khalistan Sikh leader Gurpatwant Singh Pannun on American soil.
According to Kashmir Media Service, the Washington Post report said that an officer of RAW, Vikram Yadav, had hired a hit team and plotted an attack on Khalistan Sikh leader Gurpatwant Singh Pannun on American soil.
In November 2023, a report in the Financial Times stated that the US had foiled a plot to kill Pannun. The report also said that the US issued a warning to the Indian government over concerns that New Delhi was involved in the plot to eliminate Khalistani Sikh leader, Gurpatwant Singh Pannun.
Following this, an indictment was filed in a Manhattan court that a man named Nikhil Gupta colluded with the Indian government official in the plan to murder Pannun, who holds dual citizenship of the US and Canada.
The indictment report referred to an unnamed person, ‘CC-1’, who directed the plot to kill Pannun from India. He recruited Nikhil Gupta in May 2023 to orchestrate Pannun’s killing, the charges state. The Washington Post report reported that this ‘CC-1’ was Vikram Yadav, the Indian agency RAW officer.
